It's been almost 12 months since Thunderbolt made its debut on the 2011 MacBook Pro. In that time, just a few dozen Thunderbolt products have shipped, to the disappointment of users eager to take advantage of the fast connection.

Seagate has announced the next version of its Momentus XT ‘hybrid’ hard drive, a design that pairs a traditional spinning hard disk with a large cache of flash memory as a way of boosting performance without the expense of a full-blown SSD drive.

Seagate has introduced a new line-up of mobile and desktop FreeAgent for Mac storage devices. The new products include the FreeAgent Go Drive for Mac, Go Pro for Mac Drive, Go Dock+ and Desk Drive for Mac 2TB.

At the annual DEMO show, breakthrough technology ideas (along with some wannabes) go public: Two of the coolest hardware ideas from this year's show have unlikely names: Zink and Dave. Zink lets you print without ink, and Dave puts 10- to 20GB in your pocket for storing music and photos.